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Sora-Oathkeeper-Oblivion: Answer 1: I didn't think I needed to because of the story line, and the begining. So I didn't. Now she doesn't so I don't have to go back and fix it. happy dance I had a friend that spelled her name Yuffi, Answer 2: When your in that kind of perdicament (sp?) you just go with the flow. XD Must you always correct everything! XE Thank you:)
Chapter 3: Friends
The man fell and disappeared into the Darkness as I stood and watched. I couldn't get how it happened. The bullet laid there on the ground showing it had hit something, but it wasn't me it hit. I remember a face, a face of a girl, but that's all I saw. I just saw the face, not even the hair color or anything.
I knelt down and picked up the bullet. I moved it around in my hand, examining it. It had indeed hit something hard because the point was now flat and smooth. Besides that, that's all I could tell from the bullet. I slipped it in my pocket telling myself I would find the one who saved me and thank her properly. When I reached the bottom of the cliffs Sora, Donald, and Goofy had finished off the Heartless. I sighed happily because I didn't feel like dealing with another fight at the time.
When they looked at me they all yelled my name and ran over to me. "Are you ok?" Goofy asked first.
"What happened?" Sora asked next.
"We heard a shot and…" I stopped Donald.
"I'm fine! He missed me, and besides I couldn't go down that easily." I gave a cocky smile.
I could tell Donald was about to say something but he decided not to. This was because we were slowly being surrounded but Gorillas. Gorillas! 'I swear after I get out of here I will never look at a monkey the same way again…' I promised myself.
Tarzan was right next to the largest one, and Sora walked over to him. Just as he did, the huge Gorilla grabbed him and flung him over the cliffs. Donald, Goofy, and I all had our jaws on the ground. Before we knew it, or could get away, the Gorilla flung the rest of us! Before I could even scream I did a face plant right into the dirt. I was totally against monkeys for life! Real monkeys or stuffed monkeys I'm against MONKEYS.
I put my hands flat against the ground and pushed myself up, and then slowly stood. I rubbed my face that stung like Hell! After I was sure I got the dirt off I looked, and Donald and Goofy were doing the same. At least I wasn't alone in the face plant monkey throw.
"Is everyone ok?" Sora asked.
"As good as it gets." I grabbed Donald's mouth and held it shut so he wouldn't go on a furry.
Sora nodded then looked at Tarzan; Tarzan also nodded and started to walk off toward some caves. Once inside the caves I noticed that we were under a waterfall, making the whole place seem almost magical. Tarzan walked into a room where you could barely hear the roar of the water. It had a small opening at the top. Vines wrapped around themselves and the walls of the cave room making any light that came in look like shimmering glass on the walls and floor. At the end of the room was a key hole.
"I get it, the Heart." The woman said.
I jerked, how the Hell did she get there?!
Obviously Donald thought the same thing, "Jane?!"
"It's the Heart of the World." Goofy exclaimed.
"So by Heart you meant this, not my friends?" Sora seemed to slump down.
"No Sora," I walked up and put my hand on his shoulder. "I think what he was trying to say was that our friends are 'in' our Hearts."
"I don't get it." Donald folded his arms and tapped his foot.
"It makes since." Jane smiled and stood next to Tarzan. "When you have friends, they have a place in your Heart." She looked at Tarzan and he looked at her. "Your friends are in your Heart."
I nodded, I understood completely. You could never just forget a friend, if they really mattered to you. "A true friend gives you a piece of their heart and if you're a true friend you give them a piece of yours. It's a perfect exchange." I never really had a friend like that, one that would stand by me and just like me for whom I was. Not since like second grade, but she moved away afterwards.
"What's wrong Kyde?" Donald asked looking up at me.
I was snapped out of my thoughts; I didn't realize the face I was making. "Just thinking, I never really had friends like that."
"Well we're your friends, right?" Goofy smiled.
"Ya, friends forever." Sora grinned.
"Ya," I put on a smile and put my hand out "friends."
Sora, Donald, and Goofy put their hands on mine. After a minute Sora's KeyBlade appeared in his hand and the tip glowed, and then the key hole glowed.
"What?" we retracted our hands as Sora looked back and forth from the Key to the wall. Then the Key started to raise on its own and a beam of light shot from it to the keyhole. After the light subsided the keyhole made a locking sound.
"What was that?" I asked.
"He locked the Heart of the world, so it couldn't be destroyed." Jiminy popped up.
"Oh…" Sora, Donald, Goofy, and I said.
Back at the camp we said our good-byes and went to the ship that was luckily still working. Donald was driving and that was final in the ship 'rules'. Whatever that means, if I want to drive I will.
The other three were talking again, and I was leaned back in my chair, zoning out. I was watching the stars go by, what else was there to do?
Beep Beep Beep!
Saved by a world… Donald immediately turned around and started to say something.
"No wait, don't tell me. It's a new world!" I said before Donald got a chance to.
"I don't think Riku would be there…" Sora said looking at the world.
"I'd have to agree." The world was covered in red, white, and pink colors with hearts. I knew right away that I was NOT stepping foot on that world. "I'm not going."
"WHAT?!" Donald and Goofy screamed.
"I refuse to step foot on that world." I crossed my arms and sat down in my seat.
"But you're the Protector." Jiminy jumped on my shoulder.
"And after that last one I think I can sit this one out. I mean I passed out, got tossed like a bean bag, and! I hate monkeys."
"It's ok, you don't have to." Sora said.
I was shocked by this, "What?"
"You need to rest, and besides that's what Donald and Goofy are here for." He gave a smile.
I smiled back; I knew Donald wouldn't pass that up.
"Of course! Com'on Goofy, we'll protect Sora!" Donald started to land the ship.
"I'll watch the ship from here. If you need anything just call." I found a way to lean my chair back and put my feet on the top of Donald's chair.
Before Goofy could even say anything Donald had dragged him out of the ship and Sora, who was laughing, waved to me and left.
When the door to the ship was closed I sighed to myself, "There is no force that could ever make me got through a world that looks like this!" I tried to forget where I was at and got comfy.
I was so close to falling asleep I was in that groggy state. The others had been gone for a while, but they hadn't called so I wasn't going to worry. Besides it's not like Donald to just give up on a fight that easily. He was too much of a bird brain for that, literally.
I heard some noise coming from outside, "Great just when I was so close to sleeping…" I got out of my chair after sitting it up.
I looked out the cockpit, and I expected to see the tree amigos walking up, but I was mistaken. Hoards of Heartless started to surround the ship. They were only shadows, but that didn't make it any less annoying. I wasn't about to call Sora, besides I could handle a couple, few, ok SEVRAL Heartless.
I ran to the door of the ship and called my KeyBlade. When it came I put my other hand on the door. They were coming and they were coming fast, I would have to jump out so they wouldn't get in the ship, they were too stupid to just warp in. I took a deep breath and shoved the door open, and when I stepped on the ground I pushed it closed with my back.I raised my KeyBlade and ran at the Heartless. It only took one hit on each of them but they were coming faster then I could make them go.
"This whack is whack not whack my whack DAY!"
I had to find a way to make them all go at once, but how? All I have is a KeyBlade… "Wait, if the others can use magic that means that I might have some in me to." I thought to myself as I hacked away at the black ground. "Com'on think, what can I do?"
I jumped back from an attack, and then got attacked from behind. I spun and got all the Heartless around me. "I can't ask for help, I won't ask for help!" I said aloud. I nearly yelled it to the world.
Just then I heard that familiar voice, "Now you are moving forward."
Time seemed to stop around me, the Heartless were moving in slow motion, if they were moving at all. The air seemed to be filled with energy around me, it wasn't dark energy, but it wasn't light energy either. I felt it go through me, and my body seemed to move on its own.
My arms raised and both of my hands gripped the hilt of my KeyBlade. Then my hands let the Key point down. After a few seconds of standing there the words came to me and as I spoke them they echoed.
"DARK HOLE!" My arms shoved my KeyBlade deep into the ground, and then turned it as if opening something.
Time started again and a huge black hole opened up in the ground. It was swirling with Darkness, and was sucking up everything. Yet neither my surroundings nor I was affected by its pull. The hole sucked up the Heartless several at a time. By the time they were all inside it the hole closed and I fell to my knees.
I heard clapping behind me, I thought it was Sora but I decided to look before I mouthed off. I'm glad I did, because it was a girl. I looked at her for a moment, she somehow looked familiar. Could she have been the one from earlier? The one that saved me from being shot?
"Nice, now I know why you're this 'Protector'." The girl said as she walked closer.
"Everyone knows I'm the Protector, but why are you here?" I tried to stand but started to wobble.
"If that's the first time you've done that I wouldn't rush to stand if I were you."
"And how would you know?"
"Lets just say I understand what that was, but what was it that you called it?"
"Dark Hole I think, now answer my question."
"Tai, I'm here for a reason that I would rather keep to myself."
"Fine by me. Your business is your business." I said getting my balance.
I could tell she was looking at my KeyBlade. "Now your name is?"
"Name's Kyde." I made my KeyBlade disappear.
She seemed to smile at this, "I didn't know that the Protector had a KeyBlade."
"If that's what you wana' call it, sure. I have a KeyBlade, but don't go around preaching it to the worlds."
She stayed quiet.
"What are you doing here?"
"Just looking."
"Well you just gona' look or do something?"
"What?"
"I mean why are you really here."
She shrugged, "I wanted to see if the Protector was worth my time."
"Are you asking or saying?"
"Both, I'm coming with you."
"What? Why?"
"Does it matter? What, are you saying I can't?"
"No I'm just asking why."
She just looked at me, like she was thinking about something deep. Something that was hers to keep and hers alone.
"Well?" I asked.
"I have my reasons."
"That again? Fine, I don't mind."
Tai's hair was shoulder length, but her bangs reached her jaw. It was golden brown in color with black tips. Her eyes were green, but seemed to change color when she was mad. It turned to a golden color, other than that they were green with only a little gold in them.
Her clothes were loose on her body. They looked like they were easy to move around in. She had pants with a tank-top with a vest. Which I liked by the way. Her pants were blue, her shirt was black, and her vest was a mix of black with red and blue weaved into it.
Other then her clothes, she was rather pAl like me, she also had a silver necklace with a little fire symbol on it with a red stone set to look like some kind of fire design. She was also about my height, maybe a little taller but we both had boots on so you couldn't tell the difference. She was maybe my age to, but I wasn't going to ask.
We both were leaning up against the ship, not saying a word. We were both in our own little places. I wanted to know why I was dragged into this thing with Axel and Tai. Is there something I must do? Is there something to gain from this?
As I pondered on these thoughts they were soon shattered but Sora's voice. "Hey Kyde! Sorry we took so long! You wouldn't believe what happened."
It was obvious that they didn't see Tai from where they were coming from, "Don't tell me, I don't want to know."
Sora looked past me, "Who is she? Is she a friend of yours?"
I looked at Tai, she was looking at Sora, "You could say that. She wants to come with us, and since Donald and Goofy are still arguing I'll take that as a yes." I looked back at Sora.
"Ok, what's your name?" He asked.
"Tai." Was her reply.
'Well she's blunt.' "Well let's get going, it'll get dark on this world soon and I'm sick of Heartless." I said opening the door.
Sora nodded, "Donald, Goofy! Com'on! We're leaving!"
Tai walked past him and into the ship as they finally realized that there was someone new.
I took my seat and Tai took the last one in the far back. "So that's the KeyBlade Master?" she asked.
"Yup, why do you ask?"
"I didn't expect him to be so, so. Well jolly I guess."
I smiled, "He has to be, if we give up our 'jolliness', then the road we are on would be long. Without having some fun you'd get board and want to quit." I had no idea where that came from. It just kinda' felt that way inside, but that's what I really felt.
She looked at me, "If you say so."
Tai and I sat and kept to ourselves, Donald was doing something with the ship, Goofy was almost asleep, and I could tell Sora was thinking about something. I didn't want to bother his thoughts, but I didn't want him to be so sad. Just looking at that face when it's not smiling is depressing.
I sighed to myself and started thinking to myself also. 'What could be the problem? We haven't found any sign of Riku or Kiari, but it's not time to give up hope. What could he be thinking about then?'
Looking out of the ship, I saw so many stars going by, knowing that each was a world. A world with life, happiness, sadness, pain, and joy. There used to be more, before the Heartless came. That's what I was told anyways, but how could so many be gone when there were still so many left? What happened to all those lives?
It made me almost mad inside; I could feel the emotion creep through me. I guess I must have acted different or something because I noticed that Tai was looking at me. Not in the way she would be just looking at you, she was looking into me.
"What's the matter?" She said at almost a whisper.
"Nothing." I replied.
She smiled then stood and walked over to my chair and sat on the arm. "Please, I'm not stupid."
I gave her a grin, "I'm just thinking," I looked past her and whispered, "I'm more worried about him than myself."
Tai looked at Sora, he was still looking down. She turned back toward me, "That's your job. That means your doing well."
"And what's your 'job'?"
She gave me a glare for a moment and her eyes almost changed color from green to gold, but it quickly changed back. "If we're going to travel together we should at least try to be ok with each other."
"I thought you didn't want to be 'ok' with me?"
She didn't say anything.
"Alright, just as long as you answer this question for me."
"What is it?"
"Why is it that your eyes sometimes change color?"
She almost looked pained by my question. Like it was something deep that she didn't want to let out. "Why do you want to know?"
"Fine, I'll answer a question and you answer a question. Deal?"
She nodded, "Where do you come from?"
"What?" I didn't know what she meant by this. Did she mean my 'real' home? Or the place I called home when I came here?
"You're not from here, I can tell."
"I came from Sora's home."
"No, I mean you're not from around here."
"Have you been watching me?"
Her face answered my question with shock.
"So it was you that saved me from that bullet!"
BEEP! BEEP!
The ship sounded that annoying noise again. I groaned, "We'll continue this talk later."
Goofy had already shot up and was about to ask what world. Sora was right in the middle looking at the world. I to looked, along with Tai, it wasn't very interesting. It looked like it was in the era of the Greek Gods.
As we started to walk off the ship, Tai started beeping. I looked at her and she looked at me, "I have to go."
"Go where?" Donald asked.
"I need to check on something."
"Like what?" Goofy asked.
"Just something."
"You're going to go by yourself?" Sora walked in between the two.
She nodded.
"No she's not."
Tai looked at me.
"I'll go with her, if it's ok with the KeyBlade Master." I smiled at Sora.
"I don't mind, and maybe you'll find Riku and Kiari."
I nodded and smiled, "Ya, I won't be gone to long." I looked at Donald and Goofy. "Now you two, I'm taking a little time off. Can you handle Sora on your own?"
"Of coarse we can!" Donald saluted me, and Goofy did also.
"You'd better." I turned to Tai. "Now let's go." I winked
She nodded and started walking off, I followed.
"Be careful!" Sora yelled as we walked off.
"You to!" I yelled back.
"So where are we going?" I asked after sitting down in the sun for a while.
"You'll see." Was all she said.
"When is your 'ship' going to get here?"
"It should be here in five minutes."
I stayed quiet; I didn't like the heat to much. It seemed like Tai kind of liked it, but I couldn't tell. I was born in the summer but I love the pureness of the snow. Where I lived back home, the winters were always cold and it always snowed. The snow was at least a foot or so, only once did it get over five feet, then it was taller to me. I was about the age of six or seven back then and I made myself tunnels under the snow, and I stayed there by myself during recesses at school.
Back then, it was lonely for me. I didn't have very good friends, and they always ditched me when they could. Finally I didn't even try to find them; I would just go off by myself. When it was nice out I would go to the gate and watch the birds fly around the bat house we made just a year before. I listened to the river that went right by it, and I wished I could go home.
But in the winter I either stayed inside drawing and writing, or I was outside in my huge coat hiding in the snow. I even fell asleep a few times, and got in trouble. I had no friends, no one to talk to that wanted to talk to me. They knew I was different, and now I think I know why. I always believed that there was more to life than just living it. More to things you just think up and go on with. I thought that everything you made in your mind was made somewhere else.
"Hey you with me?" Tai had her hand on my shoulder.
"What?" my train of thought just crashed.
"I said are you with me?"
"Oh ya, sorry." I got to my feet and she nodded and walked off toward a ship.
I must have been deep in thought if I didn't notice that thing. I just shrugged and jumped in behind her.
After a while of her driving and me sitting on the floor, I heard her flip some switches and turn her chair to face me. "What were you thinking about?"
"When?"
"Back on that world."
"Oh, I was just thinking."
"No really." She gave me a look. "About what?"
I looked at her, "Home."
"Your home?" She leaned back in her chair.
"Ya." I stared at the floor.
"What happened to yours?"
"What do you mean?" I just told her one of my deepest thoughts, and she asks more questions.
"Was it destroyed?"
"Oh no, at least I don't think so."
She looked at me, "You don't think so?"
"It's kinda' hard to explain." I sighed.
"We've got time."
I paused for a moment, and then leaned back against a wall. "When I came here, to Sora's World, I didn't come by ship or anything like that. I just appeared there, and that's it."
"That's it? You just 'appeared' there?" I could tell she wanted more.
"One moment I'm on my world, in the mountains. Then the next thing I know I'm in Sora's World."
Tai went quiet, and she didn't say anything for a while. I think she was trying to figure things out in her head. "Are you sure that's all?"
"Ya, I'm sure." The part before that wasn't for her to know yet… Oh and also the fact that I had a 'split personality'.
'You never know, she might understand.'
'I thought you left!' I said in my head.
'You need to try and trust people more. She could be a good friend to stand by your side later on.'
'I'll do what feels best for me, and I'll tell her when I'm ready. I'll tell everyone when I'm ready.' I didn't really want to. They might have thought I was crazy.
Tai was looking at me, "Now what?"
"Oh nothing, just something I remember from back home." I tried not to blush, could she tell I was talking to myself in a way?
BEEP! BEEP!
Saved by the same annoying bell, I thought that at least she would have a different sound. Tai turned around in her chair and flipped some switches.
I stood and leaned on her chair. As we moved forward I could see something coming into view. What I saw wasn't very interesting, and to tell the truth I was sad because of it. It was a World that looked like it was dead, to me anyways. It was covered in a shade of Darkness and looked like it had been that way for a while now. As we got closer I realized that the Darkness I saw was thick fog, purple in color. Not much light shown through them making it hard to see what was five feet in front of you.
Tai landed the ship on what seemed like the ground. Hoping it was flat, I sighed to myself. She got up without a word and hopped out of the ship, and of course I followed. I watched the cockpit close behind us and tried to cover my mouth and nose.
"What is up with this fog?" I said through my hand looking about at Tai. 'I can hardly even breathe in this.'
"This is what happens when a World dies and it hasn't been destroyed yet. The Darkness over takes it and the air thickens with dense fog." She started to walk off away from the ship.
I didn't bother asking how she knew that, I just took her word for it. Complaining under my breath I followed behind her.
It seemed like forever to me in the fog while we were walking. Probably because I was breathing so shallow and I couldn't get enough air. I wondered if Tai was having the same problem, and if she was she was hiding it well. She also seemed to know where she was going. If I was leading I would have fallen flat on my face in the first three minutes.
"So…" I started to say. "What are we doing here?"
"Checking something." Was her blunt reply.
"I know that, but checking what? I'm starting to get dizzy."
"I need to know if …" she paused. "Never mind, you'll probably see."
After probably half an hour she stopped and I thought I was going to faint. My head was spinning from lack of oxygen.
"Hum."
"Hum what?"
"There was something that gave off a signal that my scanner picked up. I'm probably too late."
"I'll say, the world's dead. What could be here?"
"I'm looking for worlds in trouble or in chaos. I wanted to see if…" Tai stayed quiet for a few moments.
"Were you looking for someone?"
Immediately she turned to face me and I could tell by the look on her face that she was.
"Well why didn't you just say that in the first place?" I shrugged, "I wouldn't have cared if we took a detour to find someone."
Tai's face changed, "I was just hoping…" she looked at me, "Are you ok?"
"Of coarse not! I can hardly breathe!" I complained.
"I can breath fine. What's wrong with you?"
"How the Hell should I know?" I could feel my legs about to give way. She was saying something but I couldn't hear her. My head felt heavy and my legs felt gone and the last thing I remember was a mix of black and purple, and the feeling of falling.
"My aching head." I said aloud, and put my hand on my head.
I rolled onto my back after realizing that I was on my face. Opening my eyes I felt a little strange, like my body wasn't my own. I sat up and looked around me and didn't recognize anything. Everything was silver yet the walls didn't hold any light. Not like there was any to hold, the room was totally without light. Except a small window shaped like a tower that was mostly closed.
"What the Hell is happening?" I whispered. "This body, why does it feel so strange, but so much like me at the same time?" I looked down at myself; I was wearing that same coat that Axel wore. I removed my hand from my head and placed it on my chest. "I feel so, so empty?"
A knock at the door to the room I was in startled me, "Hey you in there?"
I knew that voice, but who was it? "Who is it?"
"I'll leave you alone for a while longer." The voice said then whoever it was walked off.
"What is going on here?" I got off the bed I was on and went to the window.
When I opened it I saw a large forest, and a starry sky. It was beautiful, and peaceful. The forest held nothing but silence and the sky held no moon that I could see, yet light came from somewhere. I realized that not only I felt empty but everything else did to. Everything around me felt empty, felt like it had nothing. The trees full of leaves seemed bare, and the sky glistening with stars seemed like a cloudy night.
I turned away from the window; I didn't want to look anymore. Trying to forget the feelings of emptiness I looked around the room. It looked like just a regular bedroom; it had a bed, small desk, mirror, book shelf, and a door.
"I wonder…" I walked over to the mirror and before I looked in I closed my eyes, and took a deep breath.
"Kyde?"
I heard my name, but it wasn't from inside my head. It was coming from around me like someone was right there, which there wasn't.
"KYDE!!"
Now I felt my body shake, like I was being thrown around.
"COME ON KYDE!"
I opened my eyes expecting to see a mirror, but everything around me changed. I was in Tai's ship and she was shaking me franticly. She stopped when she saw my eyes open.
"Don't you EVER do that to me!" Tai seemed mad and grateful at the same time.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?" I was totally pissed. I wanted to know what was happening and I wanted to know now.
"How the Hell should I know? One minute you're talking to me, then next you're out cold, and now you're screaming!"
We both went silent for a few moments. Then Tai stood and held out her hand, "Well we might as well get going."
I nodded and took her hand.
She helped me up, and then turned to sit in her chair. "I've been looking for Sora, Donald, and Goofy's ship. I just got a lock on it not to long ago, and just as I set it to auto-pilot you started making noises."
"Noises?" Did she mean like snoring?
"You kept moving around and saying stuff."
"Stuff?"
"Stuff like 'empty', and 'nothing'." She looked at me. "Did anything happen when you passed out?"
Now where was she going with this? "Not that I know of." I shrugged, "It was probably a dream, but I don't remember having one." I must be good at lying because she believed me, I think…
"Alright then, let's just get to Sora." She turned her chair around to face the front.
"Hey Tai."
"Ya?"
"Can we, well… Can we keep this between you and me?"
She paused, "Sure, that's what friends do."
I smiled, 'Friends hu…'
"How many times have I said I don't like the heat mixed with sand!" I yelled into the desert.
"You haven't." Tai said.
"Maybe not to you!" I put up my hood.
"My sensors told me that Sora should be over there in that city." She pointed toward a huge city with high walls in the distance.
"Couldn't you get any closer?"
"Not in this weather." She started walking.
I mumbled to myself as I followed her. It's not like I wanted to walk in this weather either, but I guess I didn't have any choice. While Tai and I walked the storm seemed to get worse and worse. Like we were walking into the middle of a tornado and everything would be calm once you got to the middle. For a few moments anyways, hoping that you would be safe enough until it ends.
Once we got to the city walls it took both of us to open the doors, and once in we were in an abandoned market place. It was quiet, and very unlike a city.
We walked out of the market and into a more 'populated area'. There were voices coming from above, not from heaven! They were in a room above us, and it looked furnished. It had colorful cloth over the openings used for windows and doors.
Tai and I looked at each other and nodded, and then we started jumping on top of boxes and such to get up there. Once we were up there we first listened to who was in there. Quietly we stood close to the doorway that was covered by cloth and listened.
"It's ok, Aladdin, we'll get her back." Donald said.
"Of coarse we'll get her back!" That was Sora. "Because we're going to help you!"
"YA!" Donald and Goofy said.
"Really? You guys would do that?" That had to be Aladdin.
"Ya, that's what friends do." Sora's voice seemed to trail off at the end.
I walked in pushing the cloth aside, "Friends stick together, they fight for each other, they protect each other. They never let you fall, they stay with you through it all, and they can even give everything for each other." I said smiling at Sora, "They'll never walk away when you need them, they'll come when you're in need, and keep you safe."
Sora smiled at me, I could tell he was thinking of Riku and Kairi.
Tai walked in behind me, smiling, amazingly.
"Now who needs saving?" I said looking at Aladdin.
"Aladdin this is Kyde and Tai. The friends that I told you about earlier and they're going to help save Jasmine." Sora introduced.
Aladdin nodded, "Thanks guys. Now we just have to go to the Cave of Wonders. That's where Jafar is most likely to be." He stood. "Let's go."
"So this is the Cave of Wonders." Sora jumped off Carpet and looked at the cave-like structure.
It was in the shape of a tiger's head, and made completely out of sand. Making me completely and utterly uncomfortable about going in. I hated the sand storm, and I didn't want to be buried under tons and tons of it! I jumped off Carpet anyways with Tai and the others. Carpet was a magic flying carpet that took us from the city to here.
"Yup that's it." Aladdin said behind me.
"Kinda' freaky." Tai said.
"Yup." I agreed. That was the extent of our conversations, and that's all we needed.
We followed the others in, not saying a word, taking in everything, and both wishing we weren't there. At least I think that she didn't want to be here, she acted like it. Then, of course, Heartless littered the path from the entrance on, and there was swimming involved. Under us were water passages, don't ask how, there just were. So after some sand there was water, then sand, then water, then more sand, and more Water!
Finally after the pattern we ended up in a treasure room, the whole place was one but this was the biggest one of them all! Golden walls glittering from the fire light, mountains upon mountains of gold and riches, but I wasn't that stupid. I just followed Sora and the others, and grabbed Donald before he did something stupid.
In the next room you could see a blue floating 'person', a guy with funky red and black clothes, and a princes was lying down. She must have passed out.
The funky guy turned around, "Ah! That Street Rat and that boy has come, but with more this time." He turned to the blue guy, "Genie! My second wish! Destroy those brats!"
"Genie no!" Aladdin yelled.
"Sorry Al, I have no choice."
"Sora." I whispered, "You fight that Jafar guy, and Tai and I will get Jasmine." I was guessing it was Jafar, who else would it be?
Sora looked at me and nodded, and with that, Tai and I tried to sneak around to Jasmine. They fought long and hard against Jafar, and it seemed forever before they got him to stop. Tai and I were trying to wake up Jasmine, but with no luck.
Jafar stepped back, "Genie. My third wish."
"No!" Sora said.
"Make me an all powerful genie."
Genie shot him with magic reluctantly.
Jafar started to glow red and everything went bright then there was a huge hole in the middle of the room. An evil laugh echoed from underneath.
Sora looked at me, "I think I'll need your help."
I nodded and looked at Tai and she nodded also. We gathered next to the hole, looking down.
"Let's go!" Sora yelled and we jumped in.
In the hole there was lava and it was HOT. The only thing to stand on was a platform that was always moving. Jafar, now a huge red Genie, went in and out of the lava, laughing, and a bird was flying around with his lamp.
"If we attack the lamp," Aladdin started. "then we can defeat him!"
We split up after Aladdin said this, with Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Aladdin going after the lamp, and Tai and I distracted Jafar.
"Hey Tai." I yelled stepping in front of Jafar. "Did I ever tell you what it means when bad guys get big?"
"No, what?" she said playing along.
"They either have a big ego, or" I said smiling and holding my KeyBlade, "They're trying to confiscate for something!" I slashed the air with my sword, "Blizzard!" Ice shot toward Jafar. Tai had taught me this earlier while we were on her ship.
Tai mimicked me, "Or maybe both!"
Jafar was pained by the attacks. Over and over we did this, and making jokes all the way. Jafar would throw large chunks of lava and such at us and we would freeze it and send it right back at him.
Even though my worst fear in the world is volcanoes and lava and all that I had loads of fun. Was it because I had changed that much since I came here, and met Sora and the others. It had to be; otherwise you wouldn't have caught me dead in here. With or without someone by my side.
Tai and I were about to do a double Blizzard strike, but stopped. Jafar started to glow a red-black color. "What now?" Tai said.
"Did we do it?" I still held my position.
"Jafar!" Aladdin yelled from behind us.
Both of us turned to look to see Aladdin standing next to Sora and the others holding a black lamp in his hand. I smiled, it was over.
"I command you; go back to your lamp!" Aladdin's voice rang out and Jafar started to get sucked into the lamp.
"NOOOOO!" Jafar yelled, but before he got sucked in he grabbed his bird and was gone. Inside the lamp you could tell that he was really, really mad.
The hole started to disappear, and the next thing I know I'm standing in the room we were in before, and the hole was gone. Almost like it was never there in the first place. I was just glad I was out of the frying pan and the burner.
"Ya! We did it!" Donald yelled.
Goofy did that strange laugh of his and started to jump with Donald.
"Jafar is gone and Jasmine's safe!" Sora smiled.
"Jasmine? Jasmine!" Aladdin yelled, "She's gone!"
I looked, and sure enough she was gone. "WHAT THE HELL." I yelled.
Everyone ran over to where she once was, looking everywhere. There was no sign that she had even been there.
"What's up with this?" Tai said rather upset.
"You tell me." I folded my arms.
Aladdin was now on the ground, "Jasmine…"
Sora lifted his KeyBlade to a huge key hole in the wall. The tip glowed then shot into the keyhole, making a locking sound when it disappeared, and the key hole slowlydisintegrated
"Locking a world's door." Tai said answering my unasked question. I don't know how she does that…
I sat on a pillow in Aladdin's home, "It's ok, we'll find her for you."
Aladdin looked at me.
"Ya, we'll get her back." Sora added.
"Thanks guys."
Genie popped up, "Come on Al, you could just wish her back. You do have one wish left."
"Ya, your right." Aladdin stood. "Genie…" he paused, such suspense "I wish for your freedom."
Genie looked shocked, "Al!" with that he started to glow blue. His arm bands disappeared and his 'tail' turned into legs. When it was dune he looked at Aladdin, "But Al why?"
"I promised you Genie, now you're free." Aladdin smiled. "But can I ask you a favor?"
"Anything pal."
"Will you go with Sora and the others; you could help them find Jasmine."
"Sure I will."
Sora only nodded, I shrugged, Tai didn't seem like she minded… too much.
-Chapter 11 through Chapter 15- That's not so bad... right? ;
This Chapter has been Edited